Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1876 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY MAT io. 1ST6.

CAMPAIC N SENTINEL

In order to further circulate the WEEKLY SENTINEL We have eonelwled to send It for the Campaign at the following low price: rreiu mj -- - I I n S rvf t wn tv-fl V and Over . VC i-m aitvKk nf nmhnndrcd to one address- . 45o (Postage free.) We respectfully ask all oar subscribers to teiiM op a -ciUD. or iwt tu yr" ,T,Xi nana or some acuve i w " AdVlress, SENTINEL CO. THE WEEKLY SENTINEL TO DEMOCRATS. -We tend thia number of the WeekJy 9 Sentinel as a specimen to many who are notflubscriters; we hope all who receive it will Interest themselves In getting upclubs Fe ak all our old subscribers to send 0 one name each. The State candidates ZSil soon be In the field, when the fight '.mi; begin In earnest. We shall en dearer to make the Sentinel Interesting throughout the canvass. Below we give terms. Dg! copy H 50 Five eoples - -- -- --135 Ten ocples or more - 1 2S Twenty-five copies or more - - 1 17 FREE OP POSTAGE. A commission of fifteen per cent, will be allowed on all clubs sent in. All remittances should be made by express or postoffice money order, with the name, town, county and state in full, and in aplain, bold hand, thereby avoiding all chances of m; stakes. Address INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO . Indianapolis, Ind. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10. Parson Brownlow, instead of going to bis grave, is going to Congress, if he can If Morton's speech overcame himself how could be expert that others could endure if. A correspodent inquires if the Republican pledges of reform have any reference to Morton's private life. Bishop Ilaven has had third-termism completely knocked out of him. If he prays icr it now he does it in secret. Farton has married his Btep-daughter again, this time in New York, by the Rev. Dr. Tyng, who says it will hold. It must console Morton's friends to have him indorsed by tbat Nestor of corruption, that hoary-headsd old reprobate, Simon Cameron. Ttomn TCstroda has been elevated to the position of president of the Cuban republic He will be elevated still higher if the Spaniards get him. The Republican candidates do not allude very frequently to their tried friends, since most of them have been sentenced, and are now In the penitentiary. The Springfield (Mass.) Union is of the opinion that Belknsp ought to have been tried dy a petit jary and sentenced to the penitentiary two months ago. Brooklyn navy jard la desperately crooked. But what matters It? It will only boost up some Radical scoundrel higher in the estimation of his party. Grant Imitated the example of bis predecessor in doing acts of questionable pro priety, as shown by his recent message and at thr point all imitation ceases. The Cincinnati Commercial says that Bristow clubs are breaking out all over the country. We bad heaid nothing of the club at Jeffdrsonvllle or Jefferson City breaking out. Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, is Indignant because the appropriations to improve Southern rivers are large. lie seems to think all the Southern streams are rebel institutions and ought to be dried up. Since the exposure ol Blaine's rascality he is more endeared to Radical leader'. Just as Morton's corruption was assuming shape at the capital, his followers here carried out his bedding more faithfully than usual. L J J If Bristow and Conkting can not show better evidences of adhering to the party custom of plundering the government. they will stand no show at Cincinnati. To nominate an honest man would demoralize the whole civil service. . , , Sometime before August 29, the IIod. J. J). New will appoint cadets lor West Point

and the Naval Academy The .appointments will be determined by a competi

tive examination to be held in this city, tbe date of wbüch will be duly announced A correspondent asks the Sentinel for a statement of Senator Morton's bank account. Tbe communication is respectfully referred to John C. S. Harrison, the personal friend and private banker of the Senator. Mortoa was scrupulously carefel in his voeecb. to touch noon no point tbat baa been tbe ground of charges against him He did not explain how It was that such enormous expenses were piled up for sending regiments into the field. It Is not thought that the Intellectual effort overcame Morton. It was his feelings tbat were so wrought up. His terrible sufferings and dangers during tbe period of his war history must have m brought tears from tbe eyes of many senators. An Independent Republican movement is on foot in New York. To whomsoever tbe resolutions calling for a better civil service and other reforms refer, it is Tery certain that the name of Morton was not in the minds of those who drew them up. Our dispatches show that the Indians have opened their summer campaign of stealing acd murder with great promptness and industry. And yet kind hearted but mistaken people are lamenting the-la e transfer of the Indian bureau to the war department. Female suffrage not being counted among the possibilities of tbe immediate future, tbe gallant Radical majority last evening bounced Mrs. Aired from the sexton's situation at tbe city cemetery to give tbe place to a man who onght to be in a blacksmith shop. Ex-Senator Tipton, of Nebraska, who has been considered a Liberal Republican, will hereafter act with tbe Democratic party, and expects, after the St. Louis con vention, to follow the chosen standardbearer "with a hopeful mind and an un faltering step." If Miss Sweet, tbe Chicago pension agent, had any romantic notions about honor among thieve?, they must have been pretty effectually dispelled by tbe way Messrs. Blakeley and Baker blackmailed her for her appointment. No wonder Ada thought it a losing Investment. The congressional investigating commit tees having found, by the examination oi original papers, some exceedingly unpleas ant evidences of crookedness. Grant has determined to stop that feature of the business, and has suddenly shut down on the documents. A document securely locked up, like a dead man, tells no tales. Tb way the people of Connecticut dis tribute legislative honors Is shown by tbe trades and professions represented in the lower house of the General Assembly, where there are ninety-six farmers, tblrt; - one manufacturers, twenty-five merchant?, fourteen lawyers, eleven mechanics, seven physicians, five blacksmiths, lour clergy men and one dancing master. Judge Pierrepont has certified tbat Grant is not a thief. lie says tbe president could have; millions by the 'Binna rt tha riAn " Vint, rlirl nnt An ft Now, if some other distinguished Repubcan Boss Shepherd, for instance will certify tbat Pierrepont has told tbe truth, we can see no reason why the president's character should net be regarded altltudinum. The old matter ot corruption in tbe Book Concern of the Methodist Church is before the General Conference. Most alarming frauds are charged, with circumstantial detail tbat leave no rocm to doubt. We'll wager two gills of peanuts tbat when the investigations are had, it will turn out that the scoundrels who have been detected are all blatant Republicans, and of the Gil Haven strife, who between prayer and pilfering have been loud mouthed adulators of Grant as a hero of public virtue. Arkansas will Bend a lovely crowd to Cincinnati. Among the named mentioned the following are conspicuous: Clayton, Dorsey, Brooks and "Poker Jack" McClure. These men represent the factions who, for years, were engaged in a deadly fend, bat who have at last nnlted under the Morton banner, and will go solid for tbe man on crutches. Brooks declared, when he was running for governor, "(hat if be were elected he would put so many of the Dorsey-Clayton-McClure gang In the penitentiary that 'cheir legs would stick out through tbe cracks.' " But Instead of going to the penitentiary they are going for Morton, The New York Herald charges tbat the eaemies of Governor Tilden In New Yoik "are atrainlng every nerve to belittle bis prospects and create an impression that a majority of tbe delegates appointed at Utlca will tnrn against him." The fact is pretty well established that Tilden is not a strong man outside of New York, and can not obtain the St. Louis nomination. And it is equally well established tbat Governor Hendricks has a popular strength all over the country, and will be tbe standard bearer of the Democratic party in the Centennial campaign. Tbe most impressive lesson of Tuesday's affray is the necessity of observing the law regarding tbe carrying of weapons. People who would not dream of breaking any ether statute of the state daily offend against this wise regulation, and this, too, : In spite of the fact that nine-tenths of the violent deaths tha: ocoar cn the streets

a-e due to this perntcloua custom. Cer-, elerrjg ot truth in a calmer discussion of talnly a man Increases hla own danger of j t ,5 jt inBpireu. if any na(j gQCQ ex. being shot, either by himself or others', by , potations of the Journal they have been carrying and displaying a pistol fully 4 4isapp?inted. On yesterday that paper much as he protects himself by this comiss,' made tbe occasion of the negro's funeral and tbe evil example he seta by braking j the subject of an editorial, which In simple

the law in one particular opens a broach through which other offences may rush. More especially do these re marks apply to persons of high standing in the community, the In fluence of whose example has great weight with those who are accustomed to look upon their practices with leanest. It will be rememberod that at the election ot last year a recent Republican state official, whose career, up to that time, had been above reproach, drew a pistol atone of tbe polling places and male a great flourish therewith. Apartfrom tbe shock to lawabiding citizens who wished a quiet and fair election, no evil results directly followed, but no one can say just bow much the fracas of yesterday is due to tbe example of Mr. Glover, a year ago, and to similar encouragements to lawlessness by persons of his standing at different times The Presidential Candidates. The New Yorlc Tribune of the 6th contains a resumo of tbe work of Republican conventions In twenty Btates and two territories, and ot Democratic conventiocs o eleven states, giving the names of the delegates appointed in each case. The candidates named by tbe various Republican conventions, with the votes claimed, are as follows: Instructed. Claimed. Total.

Conkllng 79 7 Blaine , 27 107 121 Brlatow... ...... 2 id 4ft Hartranlt. W to Hayes 41 44 Morton.. Sti 34 j Jewel lu 10

The following shows upon what basis tbe above table is formed : Arkansas Twelve delegates for Senator Morion. California Ten delegates for Blaine, two for Bristow. Connecticut Ten delegates for Jewell, two for Bristow. Colorado Six delegates claimed for Blaine. CJeorela Eight delegate for Conkllng. seven for Morton, four for Bristow, three for Blaine. Indiana Thirty delegates for Morton. Mar j land Sixteeea delegates pledged to Blaine. Massachusetts Incomplete. Eight delegates claimed for Bristow, four for Blaine fourteen to be elected. Mississippi Fourteen delegates for Morton. two for Bristow or Haine. Nevada Six delegates c aimed by Blaine. New York 8ixty odd delegates for Conk llng, the remaining ones of the 70 unknown. Ohio Forty-lour deleza'es for Hayes, divided between Blaine and Bristow on the second ballot. Oregon lx delegates Instructed for Blalrie. Pennsylvania Fifty-eight delegates pledged for Harlranft all claimed for Blaine on sprond cbolce. Rhode Island Eight delegates with preferences unknown. South Carolina Nine delegates for Morton, five divided between Blaine, Bristow acd llayef. Texas Hixteen delegates claimed by Morton. Vermont Ten delegates, equally divided between Blaine and B i&tow. Virginia Eighteen delegates for Blaine, four for Morton or Conkllng. Wisconsin Twenty delegates for Bltlne. Montana Two delegates instructed for Blaine. Utah Two delegates claimed by Blaine. Wyoming Two delegates instructed for Bristow. The ttatee and territories which have held conventions represent 410 votes; and there are 16 mere to hear from, representing 344 votes, giving a total of 744 yctes, requiring 378 votes to nominate. It will be seen by the above table tbat, so far, Blaine leads the list, being 44 votes ahead of Morton, acd 55 ahead of Conkhng. But Blaine, true to his instincts in this case, as in others where money instead of votes was wanted appropriates Pennsyl -vania to himEelf with as much nonche:ance as if the Keystone state were a railroad bond. As a matter ot course, Morton et al. will investigate the fraud and make hi in surrender bis claim if they can. Tbe fact appears, by tbe Tribune's account cf the situation, that all the candidates are claiming mere votes than they had any right to claim, since a large majority of the delegates are not Instructed at all, and may find i,t advisable to abandon all the aspirants for presidential honors named in the list and select some one who has been Identified only In name with tbe thieving party. Our readers will not fail to notice the filgnifioatt fact that Bristow has only two votes instructed for him, acd these represent a territory, which, though the usage for twelve years past would permit them to be cast, may by a vote of the convention be thrown out We say this feature of tbe Republican situation is significant. Bristol has been brought forward as the distinguished representative of honesty in the Republican party. He has been, it is claimed, the great Republican thief catcher. He, it is claimed, has Inaugurated an era of honesty in spite of Grant and Grantism. Still the fact stands out as bold and defiant as Gibralter, tbat in twenty states and three territories, representing 410 votes, only two are Instructed for the candidate who alone is put forward as tbe representative ol Republican honesty, and, of the men named lor pr; s dent by tbe party, is tbe only one capable of inaugurating good government. 11 we can draw any lesson from such a state of facta, it is tha'. in all the Republican conventions there has been no desiit manifested to cleanse the government of Its rottenness, or to wipe out the stains of crime which have been fastened upon the good name of the country. Tbe supremacy of the party, the control of the government and the division of the spoils, are now, as they have ever been, the overpowering incentives oi the Republican party. Is 410 votes to 2 a fair exhibit of tie proportion of thievery to honesty which the party represents? The Journal and ibe Riot. It might be expected, now tbat the (lections are over and the Journal's party enjoys the benefits of Its fraudulent and

corrupt acts, that the managers of tbat j newspaper would find occasion to calmly , review the occurrences of Tuesday last, and be pleased to mingle tome of the

and unqualified Infamy is about as offen?

Ive as If the devil bimself had inspired every line and word. It could have come only from a heart black with corruption. The pangs of remorse sometimes throw off from the b9art burdened with sin and ahame something like the mildewicg slime that has found utterance in the Journal, as a relief from Inward rot tenness, and this Is the only solu tion that will account lor tbe article referred to. In very blackguard mendac Ity it will rival anything ever put before a decent community. It teemed with lies from beginning to end. It Blandered basely and grossly a majority of the white citizens of Indianapolis. That such atro clous sentiments could be tolerated lor i moment by tbe patrons ot tbat paper is indeed remarkable. That they should come from a paper that exasperated the ignorant colored man to deeds ot lawless cess that culminated in his death is fit sing. Wallowing in dastardly thoughts of crime, yet loo cowardly to lead in overt acts, it now very properly indulges in ulalations deep and mournful over the carcats of the dead negro that its own base incendiary appeals hd urged on to deeds of violence and death. The blood of Carter Is on tbe threshold of the Journal, and it will remain there. It is on the skirts ol the sole proprietor, and the skeleton of the dead negro hangs In the house of the members of the committee of safety and rattles In the closets of the infamous com mitteemen the rotten ring of Republican office seekers, who have been maddened into fury by their sources of thievery being cutoff durin the past two years and If Carter is not happy with the blest, and his black soul Is doomed to wander in the earth, hla gaping wounds will grin at the whole devilish crew in horrid mockery at their crime in his prematura taking off. Tooccomplish their purpcs9 they may wave aloft again and again his bloody shirt, and sine; peans over bis grave, but in their heart remorse should fasten its biticg fangs, reminding them of their distardly crime in rushing him on to his death. Tbe I'ressnre and the Relief. It can not be denied tbat ail cemmercia and manufacturing interests have been laboring under S9vere pressure during the past year. Ttere baa been an earnest effort on tbe part of those who have capital in vested in various enterprises and employ labor, to sustain themselves In the regu lar prosecution of business, even while there has often occurred a personal loss In so doing. But tbe pressure ol the times la so stringent tbat common prudence enforces ttese enterprises to take one of two courses open to them a contraction of business or a reduction of wages. This is one of the necessities of the timest Every article of produce and merchandise sold in this market for consumption has fallen. All manufactured artices have been reduced from thirty to ninety per cent. Rents have fallen from twenty-five to fifty per cent. The common necessaries ol life, food and clothing, have been so reduced in price that at no time since the beginning of the war was the purchasing power of a dollar so great. But one or two articles of prime necessity have not fallen. Durirg all this time there has occurred but sliglt reductions of wages. Those employing labor who have not been able to weather, the storm have suspended. Tbe time has now come when it-is necessary to decide tbe question of work with fair wages or no work at all. This is no grasping by manufacturers at the rewards of labor; It in aimply a necessity, if labor is to be furnished at all. No capitalist will or can employ labor at a Iosb. Farmers and other consumers are doing without new suppM .H, ana to force sales to meet current expenses every thing must be sold very low. This has been practical to the very extreme extent of common prudence, until the balance sheets of all establishments employing labor show monthly losses Instead of profit. Those who have had constant employment during the past year, at tbe ruling rate of wages, have been the most fortunate class ot society. Merchants have suffered a shrinkage of values, and manufacturers with any large amount of stock on band have been ruined. The salaries of professional men, talesmen, bans: officers,' corporation officers, agents, have gradually declined. All these have yielded to the necessities of the hour. The recent action of the Indianapolis school board is only conformance to the public demands, and in harmony with what must come in every department of business, trade and labor. As usual the skilled labor of the artiaan, the mechanic, and the common laborer has been the last to feel tbe pressure. But now absolute necessity must Include all salaries In every department; of business: Economy In living la tbe forced result of small profits on the products of labor. Tbe dayot extravaganoe has past, and tbe great solution of the financial problem of tbe day most come with a lessening of expenses everywherea cheaper living. The situation is not yet fully realized by all tbe people. These even who have been the losers by tbe tightness of the times cave not realized tbe real cause of - tbelr failure. .An attempt to pay the same wages when there is ro profit on the article produced as when twenty and thirty per cent, was secured. The proper adjustment of the values ol, labor to an employer Is one that too often occasions trouble, and too frequently the employer is blamed, when he

is eitLer forced to reduce wages or furnish no labcr at all. It is an Injury to- a. whole community when a -manufacturing establishment- suspends work, ard all interested should b v Illing to suffer part of tbe loss rather than have It atop, or the proprietors continue to the ruin of their whole ability to furnish any labor at all. With the great reduction of the prices of living, those who rec?ive the reduced salaries will suffer less at present from tbe stringency of tbe times than any other class, and whatever reduction is necessary should be cheerfully borne.

Grant and Impeachment. We are largely within the boundaries of truth when we say that there are few honest men in the country attached to any political party who are not convinced that President Grant deserves impeachment. That he has been mixed up with the conspirltors who robbed the country, there is scarcely a doubt in the mind of any well informed person, and it is a fact susceptible of easy proof, that 6teps would have been taken long since for his impeachment but for tbe shame and degradation to tbe American name and character which such a course would have Inflicted. The Milwaukee News, In Justification of such a proceeding egainst Grant, refers to tbe infamous course pursued by the Republican party against President Johnson. At that time, tbe men who now talk lustily about national shame, were fore most in the ranks of those who demanded the disgrace. of Johnson. "Never," saya the News, " was a conspicuous person put 'on trial upon accusations utterly bate less. Even the articles of Impeachment, 'by the extreme flexibility of langunge, 'could barely escape being demurrible. 'The record of tbe whole trial stands now 'in political history a? oae of the most re- ' markable failures ot evidence to support 'a charge tbat has ever been known in any country having a regular judicial ' procedure. Nothing in the state trials of 'which complete memorials survive could ' compare with it for utter groundlessness, and yet there was serious doubt up to the last moment whether a president absolutely and demonstrably guiltless ot 'everything laid in the Indictment, should 'not be sentenced to removal from office." We would not favcr tbe impeachment of Grant upon the ground that Republicans voted with base injustice towards Presi dent Johnson, nor would we be deterred from commencing Impeachment pro ceedings because ot the national disgrace which would follow. Tbe fact 19, that Grant has committed numerous acts in violation of law, and subversive of republican gov ernment. He has surrounded himself with an army ot thieves; he has permitted every department, where he has had control, to be debauched, and justly merits impeachment. The Democrats in power at Washington were placed there by the people, becauee of tbe demoralization ot every department of tbe government, and it is their imperative doty to see that the highest as well as the lowest delinquent Is punished. The, News, from which we have already quoted, declares tbat it 1b sheer Irresolution tbat prevents impeachment and is equally positive that "had the leaders in tbe Hous9 tbe courage that tbeir position demands, the first step tu impeach would evoke universal applause, and as to ei fence, all manner of motives would nnite to unlock a thcusand stcrfsotit, now held cut of reach. Witnesses refuse to trust their safety in a Home that is afraid to attack even such a president a Grant." The hue and cry made by Republican or gans in regard to the investigations going forward are designed to influence public opinion, and create the impression tbat Democrats, In their explorations cf Repub lican rascalities, have been Influenced ty partisan considerations only, and the impression is sought to be made that tbe Republican thieves, including Belknap, are terribly persecuted persons. There is only one course lelt for the Democrats of the House to pursue, and that Is, to "push things." Reduction of the Taxes. We presume that the people of Indian spoils who have just finished up their visits to the county and city treasury, ex pect that the recent change in the city is a pledge tbat there will be a reduction of the city tax levy, and that in the fnture heavy tax bills will be unheard of in Indianapolis. Sach is tbe confident talk upon tbe streets. We are sorry to say that we bel'eve all such talk Is vain, and any high expectations of that kind from tbe Incom ing Council will be Badly disappointed There will be no real reform and no per manent lowering of tixes.if any at all, uc til a law is passed restraining tbe power of the Council. The Democratic plan of mu n'cipal reform is embodied in the follow ipg resolution adopted at the county con vention on Saturday: The Demorrats of Marlon county, in convention assembled, hereby report the following: That the Democratic party are In favor of an honest and economical administration of the government In all Its departments, na tlonal. state and municipal, and of the lowest rata of taxation consistent with good gov ernment, and to that end the candidates for the state Legislators this day nominated by this convention are hereby pledged to favor a law limiting the rate of taxation by the Common Council of Indianapolis for city nnrnmM. including school tax. to not exceed ing' one dollar upon one hundred dollars of the actual casn vaiue or an property naoio to taxation in anyone Tear: and also to e fectually limit the indebtedness of the city to a sum not exceeding two per cent. 01 me loiai value of toe property on the tax aapucate. This is too plain and direct to be mis understood or evaded. It la real reform because practica!, definite and permanent It means something, and will amount to something. Tax payers want to know what to rely upon in the future. Capitalists and manufacturers and merchants, and all the great material interests tbat go to make up"- the

prosperity of the city, want to know the

samethiEg. They know that one dollar on the hundred is all tbe municipal tax they can pay and rrosper. They demand tbat euch a limit shall be fixed, well knowing it will not do to rely upon tbe pleasure of a Council, no matter whatpledges are made,' which is clotted with power to tax tbe people beyond that rateIt is a power tbat always has teen and alwaj s will be abused. Every sensible tax payer knows it. He knows too, that all tbe talk of wbat the in-comlng Republican; Council will do in the way of reforming abases and reducing tbe tax Is gammon, lor co matter with what good intentions some of them may begin, it will end In no real relorm. It it did it would only be a reform for the time. Tbe Democratic plan is to socure It for all time. Tax piy ers, choose ye between them! Shall we have real reform or sham reform? Shall tbe burden of city taxes we have to. bear depend upon the whim and caprice of such model Republican councilmen as Hall, or shall it be governed by a dearly worded law that will protect us for all time, and under all parties, from oppressive taxation?

A f iclorv Of Mi am.. Tbe citizens of the state at large should not be deceived by false reports of a Republican victory and greai gum in this city yesterday. There was open corruption of the ballot-bcx by armed negro repeaters, by fraudulent voters from other place, and at least five thousand illegal votes were cast. The victory is one or shame to the Republican, party, and all the decent men of tbat party teelbumiilatedatthe dastardly outrages their party leaders organized. They were confident of losing the election on a fair t Bt. They had polled the city and could approximate the result. It was then they conceived the plan of having the nee roes take the polls. They hired men to perjure themselves by the hour In swearing In the negro and white repeaters. These were surrounded by their friends so that thev could not ba arrested. The negroes had teen Inflam! by Incendiary appeals, and when thev went to work they could not be called cff. They went from one ward to another. Drunken and debauched by passion they were really wild acd nnirovf rnohlo nd therefore went far bevond the design of the leaders. Hence the open, bare-faced fraud. Man of tbe poor wretches paid dearly for their folly and recklessness, and those who have used them will leave them to their fate. They are of use no logger now until tbe next election. It is no inHtimofa victory of principles in a lair contest. It was the victory of fraud, of repeating, of the bludgeon, the razor and pistol. Let it go forth to the world that the Republican majority claimed to-day was gained by the violence of armed negroes and repeal ers. It was nothlne els. Morton In the Corruption Roll. The Republican candidates for the pres idency have a hard time Uis season. About all tbey do In Congress is to make explanations of tbeir rascally transactions in the pas'. Blaine, Bristow and Morton have bad their say and now comes Conkllng'a turn. Of course, the former will not permit Conkling to escape tha tofs. They all know so much rascality about each other tbat they will not lack for material. Morton will not let RV.ce rff as easily as he " imagined, and B!aice now comes back for Morton through his Illinois friends. It is easy to see how the thing was done. Illinois is for Blaine, and Springer was posted, Morton's explanation is printed this morning. It is simply a republication ot Morton's old speech that he has made a hundred times. It may be new in other parts of the country, where it has not been read before, but It is the stalest of stale stuff here In Indiana, so that the news readers of the Sentinel deserve an apology for its reprint to-day. Morton's explanation is about as thin as Blaine's. He has adroitly woven Into his explanation tbe old self-glorification, and if he bad only been able to sive a wave or two of tbe bloody shirt he would have been happy. As an explanationiet Morton la not equal to Blaine, Let him be investigated. Tbe Elections In tb State. All over tbe state, In all the larger cities, there were sweeping Democratic victories yesterday, showing tbat tbe people tire of the corruptions ot the Republichn party. New Albany, Iiogansport, Vlncennes, . Shelby ville, Fort Wayne, Frankfort, Madison, all went Democratic with heavy gains, as Indianapolis would most certainly have done but for the open fraudof negroes repealing everywhere. WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. DEBT OF ARKANSAS TO MORTOIt. Arkansas Qlote, Ind.J The Arkansas Republican convention declared for Morton. Thus is virtue rewarded by a grateful people. If Arkansas affairs weren't upset anew it wasn't Morton's fault. HOT LIKELY THAT HAKRIEON LIED. . Omaha Herald, Dem. It is not at all likely tbat Government Director Harrison lied when he said that Mr. E.H. Rollins told him, in tbe presence and bearing of Government Director Millard, tbat "Blaine got tbat money." REPUBLICAN RESPONSIBILITY Terre Haute Express, Rsp.) The Republican party has the sin ot the present dHhoncst legislative and congressional apportionment to answer for. If i having tbe power herealtsr, it should not correct it, the people w ill demiod a strict accountability for tbe continuance of tbe wrong. ' THE WORST REPUBLICANS. The World, Dem. The sympathy of all good people ought, on the whole, to go with the Indianapolis Democrats, as they are orp:Ed to the